Why choose us?

We are a farm. Other delivery services I'm familiar with are wholesalers. They support local farmers in their own way but the prices they can afford to pay farmers while keeping prices competitive for customers and profitable for themselves. Farm to table, direct from the farmer to the consumer is THE way that a local sustainable food system can flourish. Technology is such that you, as a consumer can now see and buy what I EXPECT to harvest in the next week and have delivered to your door within a day or two of being harvested. No farm anywhere can do any better than that. In the process, you get the absolute best quality produce, unique and different varieties, a reasonable price AND you support a local, family farm that might otherwise be turned into another housing development in 10 years! We are a Durham-based company that wants to serve the Triangle. We have no aspirations to try and create this "model" anywhere else, like some of the other non-farm delivery services. We believe that, in time, local farms around the country will step up to provide the same kinds of service to their communities, either individually or as cooperatives. Farmers connected to neighbors by the Internet, that is what a truly regional food system can look like.

The key to produce staying fresh longer is cooling it effectively as soon as its harvested (in the industry this is called removing the field heat). If the field heat is removed quickly, fresh produce will stay fresh longer! Though many local growers don't even attempt to remove field heat, New Oaks looks to industry best practices and attempts to remove field heat effeciently from everything we grow. We don't intend to replicate the industrial food system but we CAN and SHOULD learn from what it does well. Food tastes better when its grown locally and sustainably and harvested ripe. It lasts longer if its cooled properly immediately after its harvested. Regional food systems need to do both well to have a real impact on where our food comes from.